Files reveal BP's worst case spill scenario

Newly released internal documents show BP estimated 4.2 million gallons of oil a day could gush from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico if all equipment restricting the flow was removed and company models were wrong.

Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey released the documents showing BP said in a worst-case scenario the leak could gush between 2.3 million gallons and 4.2 million gallons of oil per day.

The current worst-case estimate of what’s leaking is 2.5 million gallons a day.

The documents anticipate a scenario where the blowout preventer and other equipment on the sea floor were removed, which was never done.

BP provided the documents to US federal officials in May, and company officials said they have no plans to remove the blowout preventer.